The Sage of Einar

Einar, who was in the old great hall, simply drank a glass of herbal liqueur and looked at the wall in silence.

In his mind, he was preparing many measures to be able to implement in the nation to be able to face the attack of the Christians.

He knew he would defeat them, but he had to reduce the deaths of his citizens as much as he could. To begin, he would have to adapt his entire fleet to place Norse fire launchers.

Not only that, they would have to have ballistas with explosive ammunition to be able to do it, they would only need to use the same process as the ammunition of their mini crossbow.

'The mercury fulminate as a catalyst for a dynamite charge will be enough to create an explosion. They will be like a grenade launcher.

But if there's not enough dynamite, I'll have to use mercury fulminate ammunition to create explosions.

We have at least two months, to begin with the creation of weapons, but first, we will have to begin the construction of defensive towers around the entire country.

Like placing barbed wire everywhere, perhaps you could create a small mine with mercury fulminate.

It will not be able to kill, but it can destroy the foot of the soldier. It will be enough to shorten his numbers.

I also have to start creating a hydrolysis process to be able to separate the sodium from the chlorine in the salt.

I think if I do the process industrially, I could create at least 100 glass containers with chlorine that could be used as weapons.

It may sound cruel, but in war, there are no rules and even less for a group of garbage that wants to rape and kill my whole family. '

Einar squeezed the glass so hard that he broke it. Seeing the liquor in his hand smiled wickedly.

'I think it is time to make a smallpox plague on the European continent. It may not be as lethal as in the Americas, but that will reduce its battle power.

Although there is also the option of creating diseases using corpses in an advanced state of composition or of using chemicals to poison their water ... '

When Einar heard someone approaching, he only sighed and wiped his hand before looking at how Grimhilda Madsen arrived at the place.

Member of the Thing assembly and female representative of the merchants on the island as well as the wife of the only Druid in the nation.

"I'm glad you were able to come Grimhilda, it's always a pleasure to be able to see that you are in good condition."

Grimhilda smiled and took a seat instead. "I appreciate your words, Herald Einar, but much of my good condition is due to you and the things you create to improve our lives.

But I wanted to ask, is it something very serious about what those people at the port talked to you about? "

Einar nodded and, with a sign of his hand, asked a servant to bring him another glass of liquor. "They send a crusade on our nation, that means that we will have thousands of enemies who will kill for their gods.

This is, without a doubt, the largest invasion we have faced. They come with the intention of killing and raping everyone in their path.

That's why they have to be stopped, but I'll talk about it once the rest of the Thing assembly arrives. "

Grimhilda only sighed because she could see how angry Einar was. Not only that, but she could sense that things would change.

The next to arrive was Asgot, who upon entering was able to look at Einar with a fatherly smile. "Einar, I hope things are not so serious."

Einar just smiled and drank liquor from his glass that the maid had brought him. "This is bad news but we could be worse, anyway let's wait for the others to start the conversation."

Asgot nodded and sat still next to Grimhilda, then turned his head and looked at her "He told you what kind of problems we face."

Grimhilda nodded and looked seriously at Asgot "An invasion of angry Christians who are waging some kind of war against us.

It should be much more serious than what I hear, but we will have to wait. "

The next to arrive was Eskol who already knew from the warriors of Ireland what kind of thing they would face, so he once entered.

He made a military salute and sat next to Asgot; he like Einar had a worried and angry face.

The next one to arrive was Nilsa Hjorth, the representative of the Hjorth warriors. She greeted everyone and sat still next to Eskol.

Last came Seren, Sven, Evaristus, and representatives of Odin's Eye, the military police, the special forces, and the army trainers.

When everyone was gathered, Einar looked at them seriously. "Today we are here because there is a dangerous fleet of more than 5000 ships gathered and on the way to the island.

All those ships are full of militias, volunteers, soldiers, mercenaries, and holy knights.

They are a threat who believe that they can come to our land to create destruction and impose their stupid religion based on a church in Rome. They are very wrong.

We will fight, but for this I have gathered them today to be able to establish a state of total war. In that state, according to the Constitution, all the country's resources will be used to face the enemies.

We will all have to work hard to prepare the nation's defenses and military equipment.

When the state of total war is signed, it can be guaranteed that I will do everything possible to ensure that we can win. "

All members of the Thing agreed at the time to sign the state of total war document.

When the document was signed, Einar ordered that propaganda pamphlets against enemies be printed.

Not only that, but the whole island had to know the news, so using the defense towers and its optical telegraph system, the information began to be transmitted.

Like brave warriors who rode on horseback to report on the state of war.

That day would be the first time that the state of total war would be used, because of the imminent danger Einar made another decision, but for that, he needed to gather all his people to give a speech.